BIB_ID
195131
Accession number
MA 4280
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1599 May.
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1985.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.3 x 20 cm
Notes
The signature is missing. The name of the writer has been taken from an article in the Daily Mail about the item and its provenance (housed with the letter).
Lower left corner torn away; additional losses along top edge.
This letter achieved some fame when it was discovered in 1903 and published in English newspapers; it was used by the actress Irene Worth in her public reading of "Letters of Love and Affection."
Addressed "To his lovinge frinde, / Mres [for Mistress] Marye Loveringe / give this."
Lower left corner torn away; additional losses along top edge.
This letter achieved some fame when it was discovered in 1903 and published in English newspapers; it was used by the actress Irene Worth in her public reading of "Letters of Love and Affection."
Addressed "To his lovinge frinde, / Mres [for Mistress] Marye Loveringe / give this."
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
A love letter expressing "the inwarde griefes, the secrete sorrowes, the pinching paynes" the writer feels without his beloved.
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